Healing priest trinkets for 3.3

Stat Weights

For stat weights I used two gearing theories. Firstly is the more throughput focused one I posted about in my previous posts on theorycrafting. The second idea is a more mana regen focused stat weight set. The mana regen stat weights use the same model as the throughput stat weights but with the spell power to MP5 ratio set to 0.6 instead of 2.0.

Calculation notes

Most trinkets have either confirmed or suspected 45s internal cool downs. I have added 5s to all cool downs to allow for delays in procing or players deciding not to use the trinket for a period of time. Observation sees most 45s procs actually occurring every 48 to 55 seconds. Trinkets with 2 minute cool downs were assumed to be used ever 125s.

Spark of Hope = Spirit bonus * Spirit stat weight + MP5 equivalence * MP5 stat weight. The up to 42 mana reduction of spells has been valued between 100 and 200 MP5. I erred on the conservative side with 130 MP5.

Flare of Heavens = Crit rating bonus * Crit rating stat weighting. The ‘Equip’ effect has been ignored as I assumed healers will be healing and not DPSing.

Illustration of the Dragon Soul = Maximum spell power bonus * spell power stat weighting. I assumed that the full stack was gained instantly and maintained throughout a boss fight. I’m too lazy to calculate it taking 10-20 seconds at the start of the fight to hit full power and teh effect will be minimal in a 5 mintue boss fight.

Forethought Talisman = Spell power bonus * spell power stat weighting + (healing [3572] / HPM [6.5] * over heal % [50%]) / cool down [50] * 5 * MP5 stat weight. This one was a bit more complicated than most. The healing effect was calculated based on Flash Heal’s healing per mana (HPM) ratio of about 6.5. 50% over heal was assumed, which if anything was generous.

Solace of the Defeated = Spell bonus * spell power stat weight + MP5 generated * MP5 stat weight. I’ve optimistically assumed that a new cast renews the existing stack for the full duration and that you are maintaining the full stack most of the time.

Reign of the Dead/Unliving = Spell bonus * spell power stat weight. The ‘Equip’ effect has been ignored as I assumed healers will be healing and not DPSing.

Battlemaster’s Ruination = Spell bonus * spell power stat weight. I have ignored the ‘Use’ effect as i’m not sure how to value it. It’s unlikely to have a high value either way.

Binding Stone/Light = MP5 x MP5 stat weight + ((SP per cast [66] x max stacks [8]x SP stat weight) x (duration [20s]/cool down [125s])). I have assumed the full 8 stacks 66 spell power last the full 20s. Not entirely accurate, but this trinket is so weak it doesn’t matter. To be more valuable this trinket would need to grant 100 or 120 spell power per cast.

Purified Shard of the Flame/Shiny Shard of the Flame = zero value. I could equate the 510 health per 5 regen to an equivalent stamina (over a specified fight duration) then multiple by the stamina stat weight, but i’m not going to. I’m too lazy and it will still score very poorly.

Purified Shard of the Gods/Shiny Shard of the Gods = (Equip value = MP5 x MP5 stat weight + SP x SP stat weight)/2. On use value is similar to (but worse than) the Forethought Talisman above. (((Average heal from buff [2811]/ healing per mana [6.5])* overheal mod [0.5]/cooldown [50]*5)*MP5 stat weight)/2. Both numbers are divided by two as you have to wear both trinkets to complete the set.

Althor’s Abacas = SP x SP stat weight + (Average heal [e.g. 6000]/healing per mana [6.5]*overheal mod [0.9] /cool down [50]*5*MP5 stat weight. Overheal percent is assumed at 70%. How high/low this is is dependent on if the 6k heal is a smart heal or a ‘heal nearest’ heal. Overheal percent is assumed at 90% (only 10% of heals wasted) as this is a smart heal.

Muradin’s Spyglass = crit rating x crit rating stat weight. The spell power effect has been ignored as it only happens for offencive spells.

Nevermelting Ice Crystal = spell power x spell power stat weight + crit gained from use. Not 100% on this, but you get 60% extra crit per use (20%+16%+12%+8%+4%). Over 3 minutes this seems to be an average 0.33% crit or 15.33 crit rating. The Wowhead entry has 2.2% crit listed as the use benefit, but I have no idea how it was calculated.

Comments

Althor’s Abacas is a nice new trinket. Ephemeral Snowflake is a waste of space.

I’ll continue updating this as I discover new trinkets.

Gobble gobble.

Reign of the Dead/Unliving

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I recently got Althor’s Abacus (25man version, normal obviously) and while I am normally Holy, I do 5mans as disc. Today i noticed when the trinket crit healed someone, it did NOT proc Divine Aegis on them. I haven’t done much testing on this but it might be worth noting and looking into more.

The snowflake would have to trigger about three times per second (180 times a minute) to make it valuable for regen. Holy priests might be able to get close with multiple renews and it triggering on all CoH healing targets, and casting CoH on CD…

It’s not, but for a new 80 that will want to spent his badges on something else than a trinket can be considered. And, is about the healing stile also.
Your list is very nice and I posted only because you said “effective heal (heals for zero ignored)”. It does give mana from overheals also.

Assuming t10 2-piece and PoH Glyph, which I’m almost positive everyone has…The only way I could see this trinket being worse than Spark of Hope for regen, is if there are some serious conflicts going on with overlap or that the on-use haste buff is worth significantly less than the 100 spirit.

For priests its generally about 38 mana. This knocks the Spark’s regen score down to 195.

Using your assumptions you are correct (I didn’t check all the math, but what I looked at was fine), however are they valid?

Does it proc off the ticks of the 2pcT10 bonus (Flash Heal HoT)? Does it proc off the ticks from the Glyph of Prayer of Healing? Are all 5 bounces of Prayer of Mending likely to be used in the 9s rotation?

We can probably knock the PoM bounces down to say 3, but its the first two that are the important ones for the Snowflask. If we can discover the answer to these two questions I’ll modify the Snowflask’s score above 😉

The Ephemeral Snowflake is not proccing on all five members in the party. Not even for the initial unglyphed heal.

But it is proccing on two members. This image confirms that it does proc on each HoT tick provided by Glyph of Prayer of Healing, but again only on two members. I then also checked this for Circle of Healing and sure enough, only two procs…not six.

I find this odd because it is acknowledging that the HoTs from the glyph are there but there seems to be either a bug or a cap (in this case 2) on the number of simultaneous procs it can achieve.

I updated my spreadsheet then to reflect six total procs from the Glyphed Prayer of Healing spell instead of 15. I also updated the spreadsheet to reflect only three procs from Prayer of Mending, two procs from Circle of Healing, and lastly I updated Spark of Hope to reflect only 38 in mana reductions.

I have not confirmed that the Ephemeral Snowflake procs on each heal from the t10 2-piece bonus. I will be able to report on that later tonight however after I run ICC10, as by then I’ll have enough emblems to buy my second piece.

Even still assuming that the t10 2piece does cause the snowflake to proc on each HoT, the regen numbers for the snowflake are now completely blown away. If the t10 2piece does not proc Ephemeral Snowflake then there will be no question that this trinket falls way down on the regen list.

I did take a look at a fellow resto druids procs using this trinket however. The trinket is absolutely a godsend for resto druids as it procs on every tick from lifebloom in addition to the final bloom. I find it odd that this trinket would be made so useful in the hands of a druid but then “capped” for holy priests.

Perhaps there will be some further revisions to this trinket, but until they remove the maximum of two simultaneous procs, it’s just not going to be a good regen trinket…or a good trinket at all for that matter.

Nonetheless, I’ll still report on the t10 2 piece later this evening to help with further calcs.

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I was just wondering about Sliver of Pure Ice http://www.wowhead.com/?item=50339 as it does give you 68mp5 and thats while casting considering other trinkets that give u mp5 so if actual fact you have 2 +/- about half of the amount of mp5 other trinkets give you to compair it with this one isnt that right?